Getting Started with Windows SharePoint Services & Server 2007 – Useful Resources

As promised here are the most useful resources I found on the web to get you started with SharePoint Workflow.  I've listed off in order of what I found to be most usefulJ

• Developer Introduction to Workflows for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007
• Understanding Workflow in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and the 2007 Microsoft Office System
• SharePoint Product Team Blog (see Workflow channel) – Read the series on Workflow with VS2005, a great primer and lists of a few gotchas
  • https://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/tags/Workflow/default.aspx
• MOSS SDK or the WSS SDK
• SharePoint 2007 Workflow with Visual Studio 2005 – (This is great walk through, but missing dll signing step so see attached Hands on Lab for more details..)
  • https://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2006/09/04/1753.aspx
• 2007 Office System Video: Windows SharePoint Services Platform (definitely check out session WS310 and WS311 – time well spent!!)
  • https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=621566fd-a3d8-4628-a2cb-538cc173509f&DisplayLang=en
• Book: 7 Development Projects with SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (free PDF download)
• SharePoint 2007 and Windows Workflow Foundation: Integrating Divergent Worlds (not a bad primer – but not as comprehensive as the walk though on vb-tech)
  • https://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3652346
• Hands on Virtual Labs at https://msdn.microsoft.com/virtuallabs/office/default.aspx

What you need to get going with SharePoint Workflow Development

For more complex workflows with Visual Studio 2005 (than with Office SharePoint Designer 2007) then it's probably easier to install VS 2005 on to your SharePoint server as you need the SharePoint workflow assemblies that are installed on the server. Yup, not ideal, there are work arounds but my recommendation would be to keep simple to start with)

Set up a system as follows

1. Windows Server SP1 (or R2) fully patched
2. .NET Framework 3.0 for the Workflow Foundation
3. SharePoint Server 2007 (of Windows SharePoint Services)
4. Visual Studio 2005
5. Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WF
6. SharePoint Visual Studio Templates
   1. Workflow Developer Starter Kit for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
   2. ECM Starter Kit for 2007 Office System
7. SharePoint Server 2007 Developer Portal
   1. SharePoint SDK Download and Online
      1. Notably: How to: Manually Configure a Workflow Project
8. SharePoint Designer 2007 – for wizard based workflows – trail version here or off MSDN Subscriber downloads and see attached hands on lab documentation.

What's attached?

• Working version of the VS 2005 Workflow sample as per https://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2006/09/04/1753.aspx
• Slide deck for session WS310 that matches download video from here
• Hands on lab walk through for building workflows with SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio 2005

Cheers and enjoy, Dave

Sharepoint Workflow Resources.zip

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 24, 2007
  Here is another nice post about the useful resources for the SharePoint technologies: http://blogs.msdn.com/dglover/archive/2007/01/25/getting-started-with-windows-sharepoint-services-server-2007-useful-resources.aspx...

• Anonymous
  March 01, 2007
  As promised attached to this blog post is the Office 2007 UI Extensibility demo code and XML, load it

• Anonymous
  March 10, 2007
  Here is another nice post about the useful resources for the SharePoint technologies: http://blogs.msdn.com/dglover/archive/2007/01/25/getting-started-with-windows-sharepoint-services-server-2007-useful-resources.aspx

• Anonymous
  September 01, 2007
  Here is another nice post about the useful resources for the SharePoint technologies: http://blogs.msdn